Seine fishing is a method of fishing that employs a fishing net, called a seine, that hangs vertically in the water with its bottom edge held down by weights and its top edge buoyed by floats. Seine nets can be deployed from the shore as a beach seine, or from a boat. Boats deploying seine nets are known as seiners.
What does Seine mean?
: a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore. seine. verb. seined; seining.
How do you use Seine in a sentence?
Seine in a Sentence ?
- After casting the seine into the ocean, the boat waited on the surface for the fish to be caught in the netting before being raised.
- The lobster crew was dismayed after strenuously pulling up the seine and only seeing a few lobsters in the net.
